At 1:56 PM -0400 9/4/02, Philip Stortz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in G-List Digest #43: >Ian Orchard wrote: > > Has anyone figured out how to extract a Real movie from the stream. >there was a program to do it, but of course they got sued. however, >it's easy to manually do what the program did. set the browser cache >for at least several meg, watch the movie, then open the folder where >the cache files are and look for the big one that's recent, chances are >it's the movie, drag it out of the cache folder or make a copy of it and >drag the copy out of the cache folder. works with most other silly >attempts to restrict distribution too. it may not be in quicktime >format, but the real player will play it, format conversion is another >problem but shouldn't be too hard, it likely is a quicktime variant >already. [beep]
I have my normal browser cache in a 10Mb RAM Disk (faaaast page retrievals, believe me), but for downloading QT or Real movies I switch to a normal hard disk partition. The movie I was watching and hoping to archive placed an 8k marker file in my cache but there was no expansion of that file, indicating the data wasn't being stashed. A watch on the Real Player in About this Macintosh shows it bloats out to about 14Mb fairly quickly when the marker file is opened and the link to the original web page is resumed. My guess is that, unlike QT, the data is held in RAM and discarded when no longer needed. As an alternative, I could cope with just recording the soundtrack, but there doesn't seem to be any utility that can grab the sound output as opposed to an input, short of just hanging the plaintalk mic in front of my speaker (yuk!) ~Ian O -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
